Việt Nam News

A photo contest  will be launched by the Hà Nội Association of Photography Art in co-ordination with the Việt Nam Association of Photography Art (VAPA).

Việt Nam’s tourism sector in the first quarter of 2016 acquired positive signs of development and continued to achieve new growth in the next phase.

A set of six books written by a 14^th century Chinese author and published in 1907 is being exhibited at HCM City’s Cá Chép Bookstore in District 1.

An art programme titled Câu chuyện hòa bình số 4 (The Fourth Story of Peace) will be held in  Japan’s capital, Tokyo, tomorrow.

An online travel mart will be officially operated at www.tripi.vn. It allows tourists to buy package tours, hotel stays and airfares, as well as compare the price of different service suppliers.

South Korean guitarist Sungha Jung, who has been dubbed as "Korea’s Guitar Prodigy," will present his extraordinary skills in a one-night only concert in Hà Nội on April 16.

Four hundreds of French Indochinese items will be auctioned soon in Paris

Archeologists announced that prehistoric people living in Việt Nam knew how to use hand-axes 700-800 thousand years ago. The remarks were made during a presentation of the preliminary results of the archaeological study of An Khê Town in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

The Factory is a newly-established contemporary arts centre in HCM City. It is expected to be a new hub promoting art creativity by developing and emerging artists. 

An exhibition is underway of more than 100 photos taken by French journalist Michel Blanchard, bureau chief of AFP news in Hà Nội from 1981 to 1983.

Experts said the book was a useful source of documentation for those interested in the history and ethnography of the three Indochinese countries under French domination.

The Photographic Society of America (PSA) awarded gold medals to Trần Phong’s Hard Child in the child category;  Đào Tiến Đạt’s Morning On Tuyền Lâm Lake won in the open colour category and Đỗ Hiếu Liêm’s Knitting Fishing Nets took gold medal in the open colour category.

After a hiatus of several years, talented writer Đoàn Thạch Biền has written two books, both of which were released in HCM City this week

The 2016 National Tourism Year – Phú Quốc and Cửu Long (Mekong) River Delta, themed ‘Discovering southern land’, opens on April 10 in Phú Quốc.

A music and dance performance encouraging naval soldiers who live far from home to fulfil the mission will be organised on April 9.

An Bàng Beach, 3km east of Hội An City, has been voted one of the top 25 beaches in Asia by travel website TripAdvisor, according to the ancient city’s officials.

People in the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng will have a chance to see cherry blossoms at the first Hanami festival to be held at Asia Park on April 9-10